Adobe After Effects CC 2015.0.1 13.5.1.48

Publisher: Adobe

Adobe After Effects CC 2015.0.1 13.5.1.48 Description

Adobe After Effects CC 2015.0.1 13.5.1.48 will enable you to create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with flexible tools that help save you time and deliver unparalleled creative power.

Put your ideas in motion

Bring together footage of virtually any size and format, photographs, and 3D renders with text, vector artwork, and music -- and make it all come alive. Handle complex compositing projects with new efficiency thanks to native 64-bit operating system support.

Create polished productions
Get higher production values. Polish your productions with professional effects, hundreds of animation presets, precise tracking and keying controls, professional color support, and much more.

Add animation and interactivity
Craft sophisticated, professional animations that can be rendered as FLV files for your website. Or import your entire composition into Adobe Flash Professional, where you can add interactivity.

Features:

Responsive 64-bit performance:
- Work effectively on high-resolution projects -- even at 32-bit-per-channel color in HD, 2K, and 4K compositions. See longer previews using all system RAM. Spend less time waiting and more time creating with smart disk caching.

Global Performance Cache:
- Create more in less time, even in high-resolution projects. This revolution under the hood makes After Effects fast and responsive by taking full advantage of your computers hardware.

- Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE
- Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.

Real-time, high-fidelity OpenGL support:
- Work with speed and precision using OpenGL, which enhances the display of blending modes, motion blur, anti-aliasing, track mattes, high-quality shadows, and transparency and accelerates the rendering of common effects.

Layer and composition proxies:
- Prerender time-consuming compositions and assign them as proxies without changing the structure of your project. Temporarily replace large source comps with lower resolution versions to speed up work.

Variable mask feathering:
- Create a separate set of splines to precisely control mask feathering. Get the exact shape you want with the proper degree of softness at any point along the mask edge, resulting in a big boost to creative flexibility.

Roto Brush:
- Isolate foreground elements from backgrounds in a fraction of the time it would otherwise take using this revolutionary tool.

Unlimited masks:
- Control which parts of a 2D or 3D layer are visible by adding and animating a virtually unlimited number of masks on any layer. Individually control their feather and transparency.

Keylight:
- Use Academy Award-winning Keylight from The Foundry to create mattes of green screen and blue screen footage, even for difficult situations such as reflections, semitransparency, and hair.

Mask animations:
- Animate the shape of masks over time as well as their parameters, such as feather and opacity.

Imported masks:
- Copy paths in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software and paste them as masks in After Effects. Use the Shape effect to import masks tracked in mocha for After Effects CS6 from Imagineer Systems Ltd.

3D Camera Tracker:
- Track 3D elements with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections. Automatically analyze and place 3D track points onto 2D footage in the background while you work.

Ray-traced, extruded text and shapes:
- Extrude fully ray-traced text and shapes natively and take full advantage of reflections, environment maps, and more.

2D and 3D element combination:
- Work in 2D or 3D, or freely combine 2D and 3D elements in the same composition without having to change modes or redo your work. Default cameras and lights let you add dimension to a layer with no additional setup.

Multiple 3D cameras per composition:
- Cut between multiple cameras in the same composition. Define unique cameras by angle of view, lens length, image area size, aperture, depth-of-field blur, and a host of other keyframable parameters.

- Multiple 3D lights with shadows
- Add multiple lights to a scene and animate them. Choose from different light types, set their color, and define their shadow darkness and diffusion individually.

Material options for each 3D layer:
- Define how each 3D layer in a scene responds to lights, including control over size and intensity of the specular highlight.

Parenting:
- Work with parent and child layers. A child layer inherits all transformations applied to the parent, including anchor point, while maintaining its own local animation.

Stencil, Silhouette, Preserve Transparency:
- Define individual layers to cut out all the layers below. Or have layers above honor the transparency of layers underneath.

Adjustment lights:
- Set a 3D light to illuminate a subset of layers in a composition.

Projection layers and colored shadows:
- Project light through a layer to create colored shadows, stained-glass effects, and the look of projected slides.

Nested compositions:
- Use a complex composition as a single-layer source. Feed multiple compositions into one, or use a single source comp multiple times, so that upstream changes ripple throughout a project. Easily navigate through nested comps.

Unified Camera tool:
- Take advantage of three-button mice for more intuitive, immediate 3D control with the Unified Camera tool. Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to look at all or selected layers.

Adjustment layers:
- Create adjustment layers, similar to those in Photoshop, to apply effects to any layers that appear below them.

Collapse Transformations:
- Combine the transform properties of nested compositions with higher level comps to reduce the number of times the pixels of a layer are processed, preserving their fidelity.

Timeline editing tools:
- Easily add and extract content from the timeline in your compositions using basic editing tools, such as Overlay and Ripple Insert Edit; Lift, Extract, and Trim Comp to Work Area.

Intuitive text creation and animation:
- Type, edit, and customize characters, words, and paragraphs. Animate text along a path, randomize or wiggle text, and more in 2D or 3D space. Add depth to your text by casting shadows and moving, rotating, or blurring.

Simulation effects:
- Use advanced plug-ins to generate realistic wave reflection and caustic effects as well as to break up 2D layers into 3D pieces, which can then be exploded or further manipulated.

Perspective effects:
- Add shadows, bevel the outline of a layer, and even create a single 3D image by combining a left and right 3D view.

Noise and grain management effects:
- Match camera grain perfectly, automatically, and with full manual control, or remove it from footage entirely. Add or eliminate dust and scratches.

Time effects:
- Process footage based on other layers or adjacent frames using Time Difference, Displacement, and Echo effects. Timewarp offers extra control over the built-in Pixel Motion for precise retiming of footage.

Text effects:
- Generate numbers and timecode with text effects that supplement the powerful text engine already built into After Effects.

Time displacement:
- Use the luminance of one layer to control the timing of individual pixels in another layer.

Motion Sketch and Smoother:
- Quickly draw an animation path for any layer and set its velocity with Motion Sketch; then fine-tune the shape and speed of the path with the Smoother. Integrates with the Puppet tool to create natural animation.

Auto-orientation:
- Specify an auto-orientation option for each layer. Layers and cameras can easily auto-orient along 2D or 3D motion paths. 3D layers can also auto-orient toward the camera.

Independent x, y, and z keyframe values:
- Separate bundled x, y, and z value keyframes into their own curves that can be edited individually. Also recombine these streams back into standard bundled keyframes.

JavaScript-based expressions:
- Link the behavior of a property to that of another to easily create dynamic relationships, using the convenient pick whip or mathematical expressions. Simulate physical behavior realistically with minimal need for keyframes.

Adaptive motion blur:
- Adjust motion blur on a layer-by-layer basis to produce more realistic animations. You control how the motion blur is calculated to customize its look and enhance its smoothness.

Motion Tracker:
- Track or stabilize with as many individual points as you like, or use standard one-, two-, and four-point settings to track x and y value, rotation, and scale and to create corner pins.

Wiggler:
- Introduce organic randomness to static or smooth animated properties. Apply smooth or jagged changes to color, motion, and most any property with keyframes.

Flexible 8-, 16-, and 32-bit color modes:
- Start a composition in 8-bit color mode, and then finalize and output it to 16-bit or 32-bit color for optimal quality for film and HDTV.

Color management:
- Specify a color intent with an ICC profile. Any profile can be linearized or allow color blending with a 1.0 gamma. Recognize ICC profiles assigned by applications such as Photoshop on import, and apply them on output.

Display compensation:
- Simulate formats that cannot be previewed in real time, such as film projection, as well as those that can be, such as broadcast and HDTV monitors, directly in the Composition viewer.

New and updated effects:
- Enhance your creativity with 90 new and updated built-in effects, including the complete 16- and 32-bit CycoreFX HD suite.

Expressions and scripting:
- Use expressions to link individual parameters, effects, and layers in a variety of ways -- even across compositions. Also add custom capabilities to After Effects and automate repetitive tasks with robust scripting support.

Menu of preset commands:
- Reduce keystrokes and eliminate the need to memorize code with an extensive library of functions and commands available in a convenient contextual menu.

Audio-to-keyframe conversion:
- Convert audio in a composition into a stream of keyframes that can be used directly or by expressions.

Advanced audio effects:
- Manage an audio mix in After Effects. Equalize, echo, reverberate, modulate, and process audio with 32-bit effects. Generate audio procedurally with a Tone generator, and then link to animations with the expressions pick whip.

Audio controls per layer:
- Control the audio levels of any layer. Manage balance, mix, and fades with built-in Levels and a Stereo Mixer effect

Avid AAF and FCP 7 XML file import with Pro Import AE:
- Import and work with files created in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier versions, as well as Avid Media Composer and Symphony, letting you integrate After Effects with professional production workflows.

3D and video support in Photoshop Extended:
- Create, import, and paint on 3D models in Adobe Photoshop Extended software, export as a layered PSD file, and animate the After Effects 3D camera. Export Vanishing Point 3D planes from Photoshop and animate in 3D with cameras and lights.

Drag-and-drop encoding to Adobe Media Encoder:
- Drag and drop compositions from After Effects directly into Adobe Media Encoder to encode immediately, and continue working in After Effects while rendering.

Photoshop layer support:
- Import layer effects available in PSD files as a separate layer property. This yields greatly enhanced shadows, bevels, shading, and other treatments, which can also be animated.

Integration with Adobe Encore:
- Create DVD motion menus and buttons. Export movies with markers that Adobe Encore software reads as chapters. See After Effects edits in Encore without rendering with Adobe Dynamic Link in Production Premium.

Familiar Adobe look and feel:
- Leverage your knowledge of other Adobe products. After Effects uses standard Adobe tools, palettes, menus, and keyboard shortcuts, so you can get up to speed quickly.

Online LiveDocs:
- Use web search tools to find answers on Adobes website or on the web. Help files for all Adobe products are available online, are constantly updated by Adobe and a global community of users, and can be read offline.

Broad format support:
- Use the latest digital camera formats and share media with Adobe Premiere Pro, thanks to native support for tapeless formats in After Effects. Convert film, video, and web content to the correct format for your project.

Markers and cue point export:
- Export composition or layer markers as cue points in FLV files. Easily convert keyframe values into markers, allowing you to use motion tracking data and other After Effects keyframe values in Flash Professional.

Save As After Effects CS5.5:
- Work easily on projects with colleagues still using After Effects CS5.5: Save projects in After Effects CS5.5 format to take advantage of new features and performance improvements without the need for colleagues to upgrade.

Customizable brushes:
- Define brushes to control size, spacing, and angle, and save them for ongoing use.

Wacom tablet support:
- Use Wacom tablets for more precise control when painting in After Effects.

Advanced Clone tool:
- Remove unwanted distractions like dust and scratches or replicate elements for a desired effect, such as filling a stadium with people. The Clone tool offers multiple presets and onion skinning of the source frame.

Animated paint strokes:
- Animate individual paint strokes over time to change their size, position, or shape and to create write-on and write-off effects.

Source timecode support:
- Take the guesswork out of source footage edits. See timecode data in QuickTime, AVI, Broadcast WAV (BWF), DPX, and some variations of MXF, and use the Timecode effect to display both source timecode and composition frames.

Resources to get you up to speed:
- Take advantage of convenient, searchable tool tips, context-sensitive menus, the Adobe.com website, the Community Help Client, numerous third-party books and training videos, and an active user community.

Multiple views:
- Create multiple views for the same composition to see how layers interact in space, and manipulate them with confidence. Lock views so you can edit a nested composition while seeing the results downstream.

Guide layers:
- Specify layers that are visible only in a local composition without being rendered. Perfect for scratch audio tracks, guide overlays, temporary graphics, and more.

Easy search and navigation:
- Use QuickSearch to instantly locate any element or all used or missing footage in a comp or project. Navigate quickly between nested comps using the Composition Navigator and Mini-Flowchart.

BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a problem that caused After Effects to not respond to commands to stop previews or to respond slowly when changing layer parameters, including entering text in a text layer. When the Warp Stabilizer VFX and 3D Camera Tracker effects were present anywhere in the project, they caused After Effects to become unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input during frame renders.
- Auto-trace has been rewritten to address problems with the new threading architecture.
- The z-axis handle on 3D layers works as expected.
- Changes to Camera Raw settings apply to the footage as expected and without causing Photoshop File Format errors.
- MXF files from Sony cameras again import as expected.
- Audio plug-ins like Trapcode Sound Keys and BorisFX Beat Reactor now function correctly.
- Multiple copies of certain effects, like those from RE:Vision Effects, no longer produce errors about I_MIX_GUID_DEPENDENCIES.
- Several audio-related fixes:
- Audio now starts immediately during previews.
- Stopping an audio preview returns the current-time indicator (CTI) to the previous position, as it did in previous versions of After Effects.
- Adding audio markers during a preview (by pressing * on the numeric keypad) no longer causes the preview frame rate to slow down, which then caused audio to drop or stutter.
- Scrubbing audio slowly now has a delay before beginning a loop around the CTI.
- The CTI and preview-time indicator (PTI) no longer disappear after scrubbing audio.
- In addition to the above, a number of other bugs have been fixed:
- Copying a Layer Control expression control effect from one layer to another no longer causes After Effects to crash.
- Effects with a layer parameter referring to the effect’s host layer now work as expected when that layer is copied and pasted.
- Clone Stamp strokes no longer fail to render if the source layer is of different dimensions than the target layer.
- Rendering to an image sequence no longer fails if the destination folder contains an image sequence that is in use by the project.
- Animation presets that contain only an expression no longer cause an error message or in some cases create erroneous keyframes.
- Stopping the render queue with a render item that was previously in WILL_CONTINUE status no longer causes that item to change to an incorrect status.
- Preview frame rate no longer slows down when you move the pointer over a previewing Composition, Layer, or Footage panel.
- The Radio Waves effect should no longer produce an uninitialized memory read error.
- After Effects no longer crashes when a layer’s scale is set to 0% at the same time an effect on that layer with custom UI is visible.
- After Effects no longer crashes in certain cases during processing of expression errors.
- After Effects no longer crashes or produces memory errors in certain cases using both expressions and time remapping.
- Audio preview now works in all non-English languages.
- After Effects compositions with the Warp Stablizer VFX or 3D Camera Tracker effects that are used in Premiere Pro via Dynamic Link no longer cause the error message: FLT_GeneralEffectCallPlus can not be called reentrantly. ( 25 :: 222 )
MUTE AUDIO WHEN PREVIEW IS NOT REAL-TIME NOW DISABLED BY DEFAULT:
- The Mute Audio When Preview Is Not Real-Time option in Preferences > Previews is now disabled by default. The intent of this preference is to avoid playing stuttered audio in known cases when the preview frame rate will not be real-time, for example during the first pass of a preview while frames are rendered and cached. But because several bugs remain present After Effects CC 2015 that cause the preview frame rate to slow down during user interaction, even when the preview is playing back cached frames, we decided that hearing some audio is better than the audio dropping out. We will continue work on these bugs for a future update.
SYNTHETIC APERTURE COLOR FINESSE 3.0.12 PLUG-IN:
- After Effects CC 2015 (13.5.1) includes an update for the Color Finesse plug-in from Synthetic Aperture.